The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-12-31

/ at all Ike peaches ana creaiH IL iS, 4o"-
ever, an exceedingly handsome city, and
there are no finer private or public buildings
to be seen anywhere. All of the public
buildings and very many of the private resi-
dences and apartment houses are ornamented
extensively with the most elaborate carving
statuary and bronzes. This taste for dis
play among private citizens made the whole
town virtually bankrupt few years since.
/ The great bulk Of capital is in the hands
of the Jews. This wonderful race, which
thrives wherever it has a foothold, has
always had a hard time in this locality.
Until within twenty years the Hebrews
were permitted to live only in one quarter
of Vienna. They do not pull out their
teeth or put burning pincers on them,
as formerly, to extract money from them,
but no consideration whatever is extended
them. | saw an officer of the army kick
out of his pathway, with curses, an in
offensive Jew, and little later two of
them were denied admittance to a public
place. Such occurrences as this are said
to be common, but the very people who
perpetrate these inhumanities and outrages
are the ones who are mostly found as ap-
plicants for accommodations at the hands of
those they affect to despise.
EXPERIMENTING IN SURGERY.
There are here more young medical men
from the United States perfecting them
selves in the various branches of medicine
and surgery than l found in London.
They saw it is much the best field to be
found in the world, as, for among other
reasons, everything is concentrated. One
vast hospital here has three thousand beds.
1t may be imagined whata fine opportunity
is afforded for practical knowledge of sur
gerry when it is learned that there is never
the least hesitation about attempting the
most difficult and delicate operations. Pop
ulation is teeming, and those above have
little regard for the life or liberty of those
below. Experimenting is freely practiced,
and the hapless patient who has no friends
to protect him will awaken after an invol-
untary chloroforming to find that the sur
geon's knife has made daring raids into his
interior organization. Recently peasant
came to the hospital with no nose. The
surgeons thought he might as well have
one, 80 they took another peasant, and with
out so much as saying Shy your leave, put
him to sleep, and in trice had cut enough
flesh off him to make nose Of frst-class
proportions Female virtue is not a shining
quality among the peasantry of Austria.
A MUsIc-LOVING PEOPLE.
At the Grand Opera House | listened to
magnificent rendering of "Merlin." The
stage settings and appointments were su-
perb, the spectacular portion of the opera
was marvelously effective, first class sing
ers enacted all the leading roles, and the
splendid orchestra was composed of seventy
five pieces All this was witnessed from
choice seat for about SLIGO. Music-loving
people oyer here would not tolerate what
opera goers In the United States put UP
with, paying two or three prices to hear
one first class singer, all the rest "sticks," a
skeleton orchestra, and generally the most
miserable burlesque on stage settings. In
England every one of both sexes goes to the
opera in full evening dress. Here it is
exactly the reverse. The ladies are with
out hats or bonnets, but wear ordinary
evening dress, and the gentlemen are simp-
ly in the costume for morning calls.
Music is free almost as air in all these
monarchical countries, and observing how
all classes, from the highest to the lowest,
give themselves up to its enjoyment, it has
occurred to me that this may have much
to do with producing comparative content
ment, or perhaps acquiescence, rather, in
the burdens which do lie heavy upon them.
Rare is the man or woman who is insensi-
BILE to the charms of music. Perpetual
music is held out to us as the crowning
boon of Heaven, Poetry and oratory sway
and move US, quicken our impulses, in
flame our imaginations, excite our ambi-
ton and incite us to good or nerve US to
evil deeds. But what can compare with
the influence of music? What soft, deli
cious languor, what dreamy reveries it
brings. AT one time it enthralls the senses,
and peace and repose sit on its wings.
Again it sends every drop of blood in our
bodies coursing and bounding as a rapid
river, tingling to the surface, and firing us
with an ardor which nothing can daunt.
Warriors have striven in more deathlike
grasp. priests have plead with more pathos,
laughter has rung out mofe cheerily and
tears have dropped more mournfully to
music than to any other accompaniment
When we are happy it makes us happier,
when we are sad it softens our sadness.
Seeking over its soothing or inspiriting eff
feet in life, when the grim hand of death
touches us we are borne on our last pill
grimage with its heavenly sound still by u.s.
These people Of Europe live literally out of
doors for Ave OF six months. The poor
have not their palaces with grounds made
beautiful by art and money. But they
have the domain of God and nature, more
beautiful STILL The forests which encom-
pass them on all sides make their haunts.
As the shades of evening fall they gather
by thousands and thousands, with their
wives and little ones, and sip leisurely their
beer, while the music goes on almost with
out interruption. 1t IL the solsee of this,
| think, which effaces measurahly the mem-
ory of the heat and burden of the day; and
also, think that beat and burden; when it
Il upon then, is much lightened by antici-
pations of tho coming evening. There is
music suited to all grades OF condition aud
all depths of pockets, from the Grand
Opera House down to the lite garden,
where the only cost to the humble is the
price of his beer, and beer IL very cheap.
Two nights | have been TO concerts in the
woods where the price of admission was q
gulden, equal, at the existing rate of depre-
ciation, to about 35 cents Of our money.
For this insignificant amount two bands
played string band led by one of the
celebrated Strauss brothers, and brass
band belonging to one of the crack regi-
ments. Each of these bands had not less
than fifty pieces, and the playing of both
was superb. Eduard Strauss led the
string band. and its selections were alto
gether from the compositions of himself
and his brothers. l thought had heard
very often the waltzes and the galops Of
Strauss, but never heard them as did on
that night. Strauss fairly danced as he